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Role Descriptions

Depending on your background, you can join McKinsey as a business analyst intern, a business analyst, an associate, or a knowledge specialist.

Business Analyst Intern

This program, which offers internships that range in length from 10 weeks to 1 year, is open to candidates with an undergraduate degree. At the end of the program, you might receive an offer to continue as a senior business analyst.

What we look for

We look for exceptional people with outstanding university results. During the final year of your undergraduate studies, you can apply as a business-analyst intern. We also accept applications from students earlier in their studies for the 10-week program.

Senior Business Analyst

As a senior business analyst, you will work on client projects as part of a team and take responsibility for problem solving. You will play a key role in gathering and analyzing data, interviewing clients, and contributing to the team’s recommendations. You will spend about 3 years developing broad business skills, and then you can choose to take educational leave to obtain your MBA—sponsored by the firm—and come back as an associate after graduating.

What we look for

We look for exceptional people who have obtained a master’s degree and welcome applicants from a variety of academic disciplines and professions.

Associate

As an associate, you will focus on client projects and work toward leading these projects. You will have direct contact with senior clients and a high degree of independence. You might conduct analyses, interview clients and their customers, plan and facilitate workshops, translate conclusions into recommendations, or help design and implement large-scale organizational-change programs. You will get extensive training to help build your core consulting skills and receive ongoing feedback from teammates and mentors.

After 2 or 3 years, based on how you perform, you may become an engagement manager and lead client projects, manage teams, coach junior colleagues, and take responsibility for initiatives within the firm.

What we look for

We seek people with different backgrounds, experience, and passions who come from a variety of academic fields and professions, such as engineering, financial services, humanities, and life sciences. If you are studying for an MBA, or have a master’s degree or a PhD and work experience, you can apply to be an associate.

Knowledge Professional

McKinsey’s Knowledge Network has more than 1,500 knowledge professionals worldwide who help consultants do what they do best—solve clients’ most complex and pressing problems. With quick access to specialized expertise and business information, our knowledge professionals work in a stimulating environment, building and delivering distinctive knowledge for client teams. There may be open positions in our Budapest knowledge hubs, including McKinsey Digital Labs; McKinsey Implementation; Panorama, a McKinsey Solution that provides data-driven insights on global banking markets; and Periscope, which harnesses big data to help clients optimize pricing and margins.

How to apply

The first step to starting a career at McKinsey in Hungary is to prepare your application. Simply fill in our online application form and attach your cover letter, CV, and copies of university grades. We will let you know whether you will be invited to take the McKinsey problem-solving test, which begins our assessment process.

You may then be invited to interview with us. This is an opportunity to find out whether McKinsey is the right choice for you and to help you understand what consultants do and what kinds of problems we solve.